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Yeah, I’d say clown makeup is appropriate for whatever sort of flirting these two get up to.

Thanks; I forgot they did these!

Last week I watched “Though I Am an Inept Villainess”. I didn’t like the first half because the it felt like it kept re-using the same joke over and over. The second half was really good though! It’s a shame it takes so long for things to get going though; I really feel like it would’ve been a better story if the events of the first half were wrapped up much more quickly.

Not gonna lie, I definitely leveraged the currently-airing-at-the time second season of Medalist to get my wife to sign up for ice skating lessons with me! It was a good time.

Perfect, just in time to make me want to go camping next year!

I haven’t seen Lycoris Recoil, but I’m not sure I’d call the other three power fantasies. Sure these main characters are OP, but they all have goals or wishes that remain out-of-reach for them despite that. Mob’s goal isn’t to smash other dudes with his power. He just wants to be able to run better than an old lady and confess to the girl he loves. Likewise, One-Punch Man avoids it because the main character’s dream is to have an engaging fight and his overwhelming strength doesn’t help him with that at all. Frieren can kill demons all day but it won’t bring her dead friend back to life.

Oh, I love Eminence in Shadow! I really appreciate that the main character spends just as much time and energy (at least on-screen) being outwardly ordinary as he does being secretly strong. Having a certified weirdo as the main character always elevates a story.

Honestly kinda relieved that they got through this at a decent pace. I was worried that it would be drawn out; I remember it being a little slow in the manga.

I could probably fall asleep during most isekai; no pressure at all to pay attention since actually reading the subtitles will usually make the show worse.

Honestly best episode yet. If it actually is filler that doesn’t say great things about the original work.

AI would never

I think if we’re talking about how difficult it was to make without any mention of whether the story or characters are enjoyable that tells me all I need to know.

Maybe like 50% true. There’s a lot of stuff in Japan that has English “subtitles” IRL because they get so much tourism these days, especially if you go places tourists go. That said there were still a couple of times where I went to a restaurant and the menu was only in handwritten Japanese. That’s how I ended up trying whitebait for the first time!

As for google translate, I don’t use it much simply because I’ve been studying the language for long enough that I don’t usually need to. That said, as long as you’re pointing it at something that is printed cleanly (not handwritten lol) it’s usually good enough for travel. If it makes a mistake you can usually use the context in your human brain to figure that out.

I couldn’t get past the part where they get together because she tells him she’ll accuse him of sexual violence if he doesn’t help her.

Death Note may have gotten incredibly silly at times, but at least it got us some top-tier memes.

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I think it says something about this season that the only one that stuck out to me was when they used the song from the 90s Magic Knight Rayearth OP for the end credits of the first episode of the new show.

I think the crown here might go to Takopi’s Original Sin. There’s hardly any blood, let alone gore. I still never want to watch it again.

I don’t know about Cowbow Bebop; maybe if they ever did well enough at a job to get paid for it!

Only a couple of things come to mind: Ghost in the Shell (probably any of them) and maybe Legend of the Galactic Heroes. The good news is that they’re both extremely good!

I think I’d rather read the manga than commit to almost 400 hours of anime.

doing it so perfectly, it became the very thing it was trying to make fun of.

I don’t think lampooning was ever the goal; I think it was always just “bigger and better”.

Okay but maybe like 15 people watched Raideen.

Some of my favorites:

• Gurren Lagann - Some plucky youth rebel against the systems that have forced humanity underground. Very over-the-top
• Brave Bang Bravern - Extremely comedic and extremely gay, this is the story of humanity fighting against an alien threat with the help of a Super Robot who appeared out of nowhere seemingly from an entirely different genre of anime
• Eureka Seven - A boy joins a band of rebels to fight the world government in their hover-surfboard-riding mechs
• Vision of Escaflowne - Of the two prominent 90s mech shoujo isekai, this one is by far my favorite. Who knew putting a cape on a mech would make it look so gallant?

I think the fact there’s more trash than ever being produced kind of proves the original point

I strongly disagree; the fact that a bunch of trash is being made does nothing to prevent me from watching all the great stuff that’s also being made.

That’s easier than you’d think; I’d put Journal With Witch, LOOK BACK, and Draw This, Then Die! on the same level as those first two and honestly like all 3 of them much more than Death Note. Yes, there’s more trash then ever being produced. But there’s also lots of great stuff being produced as well; you just have to find it.

Right? Dude was like “You know what’s wrong with this nation? Our cops don’t kill enough people.”

In the future if you’re actually curious about what’s current I’ve found the best way to figure out what’s worth watching is to check in on channels like Mothers Basement or Gigguk; a few weeks into each season they post roundups of what the best shows from the season are.

Unfortunately if you click on whatever is on the front of a website like Crunchyroll you’ll usually end up with some lowest common denominator isekai slop or some other equally uninteresting thing.

That said, this season is weirdly bad; the only really good shows I’ve found have been sequels.

I wouldn’t be surprised if CGI was involved in some of Frieren’s more badass fight scenes

Certainly; Demon Slayer does it a whole bunch too.

and no one will complain about CGI because they evolved the techniques from when Heavy Knight did it.

Absolutely not. There’s this thing called “compositing” that other anime do where they try to make the 3d CGI backgrounds not look like they exist in a separate universe from the characters. CGI backgrounds are pretty normal in anime these days; the only thing GoHands is doing special is not even trying to match them to the foreground.

Right, but the implication that Brotherhood is supposed to inject the same filler the 2003 anime did is silly.

I mean Gundam SEED Destiny exists lol.